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Home > California > Woodside > Filoli, Canada Road, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA



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Item Title
Filoli, Canada Road, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA

Location
Canada Road, Woodside, CA

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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.

Notes
Survey number HABS CA-2117
Building/structure dates: 1918 initial construction
Building/structure dates: 1928 subsequent work
Significance: Designed by the prominent California architect Willis J. Polk, this skillful adaptation of Provincial Georgian architecture, surrounded by sixteen acres of elaborate formal gardens, remains one of the most triumphantly sumptuous of all the Peninsula's great houses.

Related Names
Polk, Willis J.
Porter, Bruce


Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

Contents
Photograph caption(s): 
1. EAST FRONT
2. EAST FRONT, CLOSER
3. SOUTH SIDE, FROM SOUTHEAST
4. WEST AND SOUTH SIDES
5. WEST SIDE FROM SOUTHWEST
6. WEST SIDE FROM NORTHWEST
7. STAIR HALL
8. CENTRAL ROOM
9. MUSIC ROOM
10. DINING ROOM
11. LIBRARY
12. BALLROOM
13. GARAGE, SOUTH SIDE
14. GARAGE, NORTH SIDE
15. OUTBUILDING
16. GARDENS, WITH OUTBUILDING
17. GARDENS, WITH GARAGE
18. GARDEN WALL AND GATE
19. GARDENS
20. GARDENS
21. GARDENS


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